Azrul I agree with you on every aspects you mentioned. Great presentation during the light talk!
My mind was thinking "what the hell" when I saw Microsoft being one of the only two main sponsors. M$ is pushing very hard to get into the open source community, and they will take whatever possible to attract clueless developers to use their platform. By the way while I do agree that it is very important to get sponsors from open source giants such as Oracle rather than from Microsoft, it is also important to get more open source communities to really take part in the conference. Otherwise the conference would be too business oriented and become a market place for Red Hat et al to sell their products to CIO/CTOs, like what happened in OSSPAC. My friend also mentioned to me that the quality of speakers varied greatly. Its like MOSC just accepts as many presentations as possible to attract as many audience as possible. To me its like attracting the wrong crowd to the conference. Heck I don't even want to measure how much proportion of the audience truly appreciate open source. To cope with the technical level of these audience, majority of the talks are very introductory and I feel that it'd be better to put the title of these talks as "Introduction to XXX". I also feel that the environment is too large and too serious to have some more casual sessions, like Ubuntu jam, PDF exploit workshop, and lightning talks. The hall is so large and the distance between the speaker and audience is so far that these sessions become more like lecturing, rather than interactive session where discussions can be made without through the microphone. When I asked few of my OSS elite friends whether they will be attending MOSC, they said that there's nothing much to see and going attending it would be waste of time. So while the participation of Microsoft do is an irritating fact, I think there are also many other things to improve, if we want to get back our geeks to attend next year's MOSC. Just my 2 cents. :) cheers, Soares On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Muhd Syazwan Md Khusaini < [email protected]> wrote: > maybe we should start make our own fund.. > just donate in an account, collect it for a year and then, the money for > conference! > minimizing microsoft "appears" in others MOSC and show the world that > Malaysian OSS community are unite.. > and everyone happy :) > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:16 PM, aziman noor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "No develop No Gain." >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:07 PM, red1 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> If Malaysia is to build another national car, it will cost us taxpayers >>> billions. If Malaysia is to build another Twin Tower it will cost us again >>> billions. Now Malaysia is building more F1 cars, again more money. But to >>> build a top of the charts SourceForge project it cost us nothing. Only me in >>> this farm here with a ADSL line. No MDec, no grant, no bodek. It is time >>> someone beat my goal post rather than hate me for pointing out the obvious. >>> But i have to. I am not on the rest of the world's side. I am on my side. >>> >>> >>> On 7/7/10 3:27 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote: >>> >>> I doubt it. >>> >>> Even the first motto/slogan/tagline "Open Source Towards Malaysia as >>> Developed Country in 2020", to show that we should use Open Source as >>> platform to become Developed Country, was shot down for the sake of getting >>> money from one of the Proprietary company that sponsoring the event. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Azrul MADISA <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Our next MOSC motto should probably be 'OSS made in Malaysia', and not >>>> some cliched slogan like 'The source is yours' :) >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ >>> >>> Facebook Fan page >>> >>> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 >>> >>> http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my >>> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> >>> Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<osdcmy-list%[email protected]> >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Komuniti As-Salam >> http://www.salamsentosa.com >> >> -- >> Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ >> >> Facebook Fan page >> >> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 >> >> http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<osdcmy-list%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en >> > > > > -- > Muhd Syazwan @ jipang_menjerit > > http://blog.ubuntuseekers.com > http://blog.syazwan.info > > [email protected] > [email protected] > > -- > Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ > > Facebook Fan page > > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 > > http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<osdcmy-list%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en > -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. 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